Citizens'/community juries [CJs] engage members of the public in policy decision-making processes. CJs can be employed to develop policy responses to health problems that require the consideration of both community values and scientific evidence. Based on the principles of deliberative democracy, recent reviews indicate that findings from CJs have successfully been used to influence health poli...

Citizens’ juries have become a popular method for engaging citizens in deliberation about complex public policy issues, such as climate action and sustainable development. Empirical evidence routinely indicates that jurors change their minds throughout the process. What is less clear when why this occurs whether causes are consistent across consider same topic but situated within different cont...

In the conditions of complex social demands growing in society and new global challenges, main policy modernization public administration system is to involve civil activists administration. Because, without support existing mechanisms control, we will not be able form effective decision-making improving executive functions state. This an important issue development any state, solution which sh...

Citizens' juries are commended as a new technique for democratising health service reviews. Their usefulness is said to derive from a reliance on citizens' rational deliberation rather than on the immediate preferences of the consumer. The author questions the assertion of critical detachment and asks whether juries do in fact employ reason as a means of resolving fundamental disagreements abou...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to elicit research ideas, priorities and outcome measures from women who suffer from urinary incontinence. DESIGN Citizens' juries gather participants together for a combination of education and deliberation on a specific topic. The juries were held in November 2007. SETTING Women living in the community with urinary incontinence. SAMPLE Purposive...

This paper uses a unique data set to examine how parties in civil litigation choose whether to demand a jury trial or to waive this right and whether trial forum influences the probability of trial versus settlement. Plaintiffs are more likely to demand trial by jury when juries are relatively more favorable to plaintiffs in similar cases and jury trials are relatively less costly than bench tr...

Within the last several years there has been increasing concern over the rising costs of California's legal system. Many within and outside of the legal community have focused their attention on the issues of caseload volume, delay and congestion within California courts as a result of the rising number of civil and criminal cases. These mounting concerns have spawned a growing movement for cou...